Firefox/Goals/2013Q1

Firefox Desktop

• Australis
  • tabs done on UX
  • customize/panel
    • panel done
    • customize prototype + known scope

• Plugins
  • Remove PFS (consider whether a replacement is necessary for Flash)
  • Make all plugins except Flash click-to-play by default
  • Conduct user research experiment to determine feasibility of making Flash click-to-play by default

• Performance
  • Land bug 566746/bug 697377 (form history/autocomplete storage changes)
  • Land followups to bug 699859 (convert all consumers of content prefs to new async API)
  • Land bug 825588 (new Downloads API) and have a concrete plan for switching over all consumers.
  • Land preliminary refactoring of sessionstore collection (bug 708488, bug 768648, bug 759782)
  • Scope out and fully understand remaining work needed to resolve bug 827852

• Social
  • Land share panel
  • Polish multi-provider [?]

Firefox Developer Tools

Scripting and Performance Tools

• Source Editor Update

• Web Console Output
  • Real DOM nodes
  • Docked VariablesView
  • Docked Network Inspector
  • A plan for JSterm

• Debugger Improvements
  • Break on *; DOM, XHR? (victor, panos)
  • Better Setter/Getter support
  • Chrome Debugging fixes (loadSubScripts, XUL scripts)
  • Hovering on a "thing" for values, implementors in Source Editor
  • Threads

• Net Panel

• Profiler Improvements (anton)
  • console api
  • gcli support
  • filtered content
  • jump to debugger
  • remotable

• Data Gathering for Performance Work (me, anton)

• Ship Scratchpad GIST support (nick, anton, me)

Add-on SDK

• Land the SDK apis in mozilla-central on track for release in Firefox 21.
  • Implementation schedule and policies
• Ensure Builder is compatible with SDK as shipped in Firefox 21
  • Bugs: bug 793932 & bug 793934